<p>But i am planning on coming to the states for medical school</p>
<p>Does that mean that you’ll be going to undergrad in Lebanon? If so, that may be a problem. I think many med schools require that you take some classes here before attending med school. </p>
<p>Others can clarify, I may be wrong. I think it has to do with accreditation?? Canadian schools (I think) have the needed accredidation, but I don’t know about other countries.</p>
<p>mom2 is correct.</p>
<p>Every US medical school requires that applicants complete all their pre-reqs plus at least 2 years at an accredited US or Canadian college. </p>
<p>AMCAS has a list of approved colleges outside the US that are NOT consider foreign and whose credits are acceptable. </p>
<p>See pp. 26-28 </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/students/download/182162/data/amcas_instruction_manual.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/students/download/182162/data/amcas_instruction_manual.pdf</a></p>
<p>Yes i’ll be going to undergrad in Lebanon but this wont be a problem, the college i’m going to is accredited american university and has been registered with and recognized by the New York State Education Department (NYSED)… So i don’t need to worry about this i just need to do really well im undergrad to be accepted in the states…</p>
<p>Wayoutwestmom the college i’m going to is accredited !</p>
<p>@nathalie176,
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<p>LOL, I’ve been “freaking out” in school since as far back as I can remember. Don’t pay any attention to people telling you to calm down. My friends do this, but I just remind them who has the 4.0!. :)</p>
<p>Although I’m a chem major, I’ve taken many bio courses including genetics, microbiology, cell bio, immunology, and others. I didn’t find any of them boring, nor do I believe they are useless. Quite the contrary actually.</p>
<p>Plumazul hhahaha r u still in premed or med school?</p>
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Since the state an applicant is considered as a resident of plays a big role in medical school application (esp. public med schools), will OP be considered as a resident of New York State for the med school application purpose?</p>
<p>Being a US citizen enables a person to be eligible for student loans from the federal government. So OP does not have a problem here. But being a resident of a particular state gives an applicant a significant boost in his/her odds in the admission to public medical schools in that state, as I have learned from CC here. So, it is important to know whether OP is qualified as a resident of a state in US. (Could his/her state for the med school application purpose be the NY state? It is a very “blue” state after all so it may be more willing to accept somebody not physically living in US? I heard of a joke that many Americans even do not think NYC is an American city! LOL. Seriously though, I also heard that med schools in NY tend to not give enough preference to its own residents as compared to many other states like Washington or Texas, so many applicants from NY complain about it. )</p>
<p>Some years ago, for college application purposes, our state may consider a non-US-citizen as a state resident in our state if he has been living in our state long enough (e.g., attending a high school in our state not as a US citizen), but it could consider a US citizen not as a state resident and he was treated worse than a non-citizen-but-a-state-resident.</p>
<p>LOL, I’ve been “freaking out” in school since as far back as I can remember. Don’t pay any attention to people telling you to calm down. My friends do this, but I just remind them who has the 4.0</p>
<p>I don’t know how you define “freaking out”. If you’re just talking about being very careful and focused on your grades, that’s not the same as being very dramatic. Your posts have not been drama-laden. Too much drama in the posts can give the wrong perception.</p>
<p>Freaking out is fine, just dont go overboard with it. Im at a pass/fail med school and I still freak out around test time. This weekend is prom/formal weekend and other activities, and I have 2 tests next week. Wont be watching the Super Bowl this year :(</p>
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<p>No. Since she will not have physical domicle in the US and her parents are not residents of NYS, like most American kids who live overseas, the OP will be considered OOS for all public universities.</p>
<p>^ It would then be a significant disadvantage, unless OP pursues some very research-oriented private med schools.</p>
<p>I heard that more than 70% of students who have been admitted to med schools end up attending a med school in his/her own state.</p>
<p>Im at a pass/fail med school and I still freak out around test time. This weekend is prom/formal weekend and other activities,</p>
<p>Your med school has a prom? Is that typical? I’ve never heard of such things in med school.</p>
<p>DS’s school has some kind of “second year student (faculty as well?) talent show.”</p>
<p>I heard it from DS. He worried that it might interfere with his STEP-1 study. (So he is another example of being a stress-out student like OP. He said that an MS2 thought he would be good enough to play a major role in the show but he is really very bad at what he said he wants to do. This potentially gives other students more troubles. Also, there are likely too many nerdy students who would rather not be too involved with this annual event.)</p>
<p>DS also said that, after the talent show, MS3/MS4 students would often get very drunk.</p>
<p>Nathalie- you are being given incorrect advice. Medical schools do not care what you major in. And BTW, biology majors do not really score that high, on average, on the MCAT. There is data out there that shows that biomedical engineers and physics majors do the best. Humanities majors, on average, do better on the MCAT. Study whatever it is you love, not what you think a school wants. Now, if you love biology, then major in it. My son will be a freshman next year and wants to go into medicine. His chosen major: Classics. He has my full support.</p>
<p>I totally agree with the other posters on his thread. You will get absolutely no advantage to med school admissions by majoring in biology. You WILL get an advantage if you have a great GPA, great MCAT score, and show your commitment to medicine. There is also info from the AAMC that shows the acceptance rate for students with different GPAs and MCAT scores.</p>
<p>Take it from me, as I was a naive kid who thought that you had to major in a science to get into med school. So what did I do? I majored in Biology, until I realized how much I hated the subjects. I changed to French my sophomore year, and I realized I should have started out with French from the beginning, as that was the course I excelled in starting in 7th grade.</p>
<p>Hope this helps. No student should make the wrong decision without having information based on others experiences.</p>
<p>D1’s med school has an alumni association formal/reunion every year to which all current med students are invited. </p>
<p>It’s also a fundraiser for the association which in turn using the funds to support scholarships and travel grants for current med students. The alumni association also gives a basic exam kit, white coat and an intro anatomy text to every incoming MS1.</p>
<p>I don’t think D1 has attended any formals yet, but it’s understood that if you receive an alumni association scholarship, you need to go smooze at the formal.</p>
<p>Here’s the AAMC chart PsychoDad is referring to;</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/2012factstable18.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/2012factstable18.pdf</a></p>
<p>The matriculants with the highest mean MCATs are in this order:</p>
<p>Math & Statisics; Physical Sciences (physics, chemistry); humanities; social science; biological science/ other disciplines [tied]; specialized health sciences.</p>
<p>If you look at the mean GPAs of matriculants-- the GPAs are more or less identical (within .05 pts). Mean GPAs range from 3.64 for social science majors to 3.69 for bio science majors.</p>
<p>@mom2, we have a spring formal every year!</p>
<p>We have a formal every year as well, mainly attended by 1st and 2nd years, in addition to a graduation gala mainly attended by 4th years.</p>
<p>It seems a formal is quite common. This reminds me that we had better check with DS to see if he has had any proper adress for a formal. (He does not have a roommate to borrow it from like in UG.)</p>
<p>Regarding the major, DS said that he might have majored in physics as well, when he was an MS2. I have not had a chance to tell him that many physicists are rumored to “eat their own.” I wonder whether it has something to do with a physics major who he knew of. At one time, he said what she had to learn seems to be very fun.</p>
<p>*@mom2, we have a spring formal every year!
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<p>Wow…didn’t know that! I can understand a graduation gala, but prom-like affairs for the early years is totally news to me. No objections! 
Just surprised!! I’ll have to share the info with S.</p>
<p>Do the males wear tuxes? Are there various affairs where a tux is expected?</p>